The accessibility of each Web site is subject to the review of the college
Web coordinator.

B. Ways to Make Web Sites Accessible

Page Design

An important step in creating accessible pages is to validate your HTML.
The WAVE
Accessibility Tool analyzes
Web pages for accessibility.

Make sure the HTML titles of your pages are unique. Titles are an important
navigational tool for users. Document titles are more important than people
realize. Browsers bookmark titles and search engines often look for and
index titles.

When possible, use only technologies defined in a W3C (World
Wide Web Consortium) specification and use them in an accessible manner.
When this is not possible, provide an alternative page that is accessible
and based on standards.

Images

All images and image map coordinates should have an ALT attribute that
specifies
alternative text that will be shown if image display is not possible or
disabled by the user. This gives the user some indication of what's missing.

ALT attributes should be properly punctuated to allow various screen
readers
(software for the visually impaired) to work more effectively.

Judiciously use the appropriate amount of text in ALT attributes. ALT attributes should
sufficiently describe the image in as concise a manner as possible. If your
image includes text, the ALT attribute should reflect that text.

Example:

ALT attributes such as "image" or "photo" are uninformative. Make your
ALT text specific and meaningful. Using transparent GIF spacers is fine,
but they need to have ALT text. For non-essential images, you can use a
blank ALT attribute; for example, ALT="" is acceptable for spacer GIFs or other
non-critical or content-devoid images.

Color

If you use a colored background, make sure there is high contrast between
the background and text. Avoid backgrounds with busy patterns, since these
can make text difficult to read.

Tables

When using tables to represent data, rows and columns should be clearly
labeled and the summary attribute should be used in the table tag. This
does not apply to tables used for layout.